Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:11:06AM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> FYI, here's the word on udev and sysfs from one of the VMware folks on the
> VMware community forum:
> 
> > 1. Is there likely to be an evolution of VMWare to
> > be compatible with udev?
> 
> There is bug filled on this, but problem is that vmware supports
> vmnet0-vmnet255 - and we do not want to pollute /dev with them, as normal
> people need only 2 or 3. In future vmnet will use just one multiplexing
> device, like Windows's vmnet does, but until then likelihood of udev being
> supported is rather low. Maybe if SuSE 9.2/10 or RHEL4 will use udev,
> something will have to be done about it, but I find sysfs really ugly and
> hard to use.

SuSE 9.2 and RHEL 4 use udev :)

> > 2. Is setting up /dev/vmnet0 just a question of
> > running MAKEDEV with the appropriate major and minor
> > device numbers? (So that reconstructing the kernel
> > modules can be avoided.)
> 
> Yes. Just place appropriate mknod somewhere - probably beginning of
> /etc/init.d/vmware is best place for them.

That's a fine solution.  I understand the vmware developer's position
and don't have a problem with it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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